‘The Fantasticks’ Is Set to Close Off Broadway in June

The long-running Off Broadway musical “The Fantasticks” will close in June, the producers announced on Tuesday, ending a chapter for a show that has been on New York stages for much of the last half-century.

The original production of the musical, a wistful story about young love, opened at the Sullivan Street Playhouse in Greenwich Village in 1960 and had a record-breaking 17,162 performances during its 42-year run. The current Off Broadway revival opened in 2006. In 2015, producers announced that the show was set to close, but within weeks two anonymous donors swooped in and contributed enough money to keep it running.

In addition to the New York run, the musical has had thousands of productions in more than 60 countries outside the United States, including Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan and Iran.

The show, with music by Harvey Schmidt and book and lyrics by Tom Jones, will have its final performance at the Jerry Orbach Theater on June 4. A new play, “The Crusade of Connor Stephens,” will start previews there on June 17.